On Fri, 01 Jun 2012 23:39:24 -0400, Kent A. Reed wrote: > On 6/1/2012 10:45 PM, EBo wrote: >> I remember someone mentioning that they were going to contact the >> guy >> who put together the miniemc2 and see if they could get to the rest >> of >> the source code (which needed some work on the install scripts, >> etc.). >> Has anything moved forward on that? Tomorrow I hope to start >> putting >> togehter a test bench and start playing with Li's NURBS FPGA and on >> a >> seperate testbed the MiniEMC2 on a mini2440. >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> L > > Hi, EBo. > > Yes, that was I. > > The fellow's name is Sergey Kaydalov. He has a tale of woe concerning > a > breakdown in the relationship between him and his local CNC > manufacturer > who had provided him with the 2440 boards. The manufacturer took back > the boards and Sergey has stopped development both for lack of > hardware > and for the reasons below. > > He has sent two messages to me so far but I don't believe it is > proper > etiquette simply to forward them to this group since he believed he > was > talking to just me. > > Let me paraphrase: > > 1) he was discouraged by the lack of real interest, e.g., no one has > said "I've run your software on my board and a real machine and > here's > what I like/don't like/think needs improvement/etc." If you look at > the > comments posted to the sourceforge site, you'll see he was getting > the > usual dweeb responses that show up when people post to > Instructables.com > and elsewhere. He says he is not a CNC expert and doesn't have real > experience in the CNC field so he needs this feedback to keep going. > > 2) he was discouraged by the disparaging responses concerning his Web > interface. Apparently folks have berated him for not developing a > board-connected TFT display. > > 3) If there are some people who are ready to help him > using/testing/developing the project he thinks he would find a way to > get the hardware he needs and keep working on miniemc2. He already > has > some ideas of what he would do next. > > Frankly, I have no idea what his resources are and what resources he > is > seeking, but he sounded very discouraged and surely could use some > kind > words. He did mention that he probably would have made more progress > had > he reached out beyond Russia to create a user community. I did tell > him > that his work has been mentioned on emc-developers during discussions > about ARM-based systems. I'm guessing he hasn't been monitoring this > list. > > As for his Web interface, in my opening message to him I expressed my > interest in porting the Web server to my x86-based LinuxCNC system > and > putting it through its paces. I also asked if he were willing to see > his > Web interface code added to the LinuxCNC project, either to the base > or > as an experimental add-on, and he did not demur. > > In his last message 4 days ago, he said he would prepare and send to > me > the Web server code asap. I was just getting ready to follow up on > that > when I saw your message here. I'll certainly keep the list informed. > > In the meantime, those of you who are interested in his miniemc2 work > should say so on his site. The comments are a bit hidden. Look at the > bottom of > > http://code.google.com/p/miniemc2/wiki/PageName > > Of course, we can also suggest he participate in the ARM discussions > on > this list.
Kent, Thanks for the reply, and no problem with not forwarding his email. The reason I posed to the EMC list before emailing him directly is that someone on the list mentioned they were contacting him for the missing code, and I figure that it would be better to let you work with it instead of him getting possibly 100's of requests for the same thing. I liked his stuff well enough that I just went out and bought the board (arrived yesterday), and plan to hook it up to an old bench top minimill for testing, and might hook it up to something bigger later. That being said, a buddy of mine has a small 6-axis Fanuc robotic arm that his brother had been pushing to get ethernet accesses for, and has a plasma torch bed with a blown controller that this might be an interesting interface for. I'll just have to put it through its paces and learn its limits. Regardless of its limits this is some cool work. I'll go ahead and post a comment on his site and email him directly then. Cheers, EBo -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
